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Chaigneau Bridge — BALLYBRANIGAN

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Chaigneau Bridge — BALLYBRANIGAN
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What is recorded here

Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying small road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Squared rubble limestone construction to spandrel walls, partially rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets (partially rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Cut limestone plaques (on square-plan) having moulded raised margins to parapets inscribed ‘Chaigneau Bridge’. Towpath to east bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Wrought-iron turnstile gate under bridge to towpath. Canal widens to the south to form harbour (Ballybranigan Harbour); dressed limestone walls to sides of harbour. Three-storey former canal stores to the southeast side of harbour. Located to the north of Ballymahon.

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